A proposal to keep jurors anonymous in all criminal trials is under consideration by the Virginia Supreme Court. The Advisory Committee on Rules of the Court is proposing to keep confidential jurors’ names, ages, occupations, telephone numbers, addresses and other identifying information. Jurors would be assigned numbers by the clerk of the court for use in open court during jury selection and the trial.

State officials want to take the sex out of texting. In addition to lecturing teenagers across the state on the dangers of sending nude or semi-nude pictures of themselves to friends via cell phones, some legislators are looking into how the state’s laws cover—or don’t cover—“sexting.“ The pictures, which apparently have been pinging off cell towers around the Richmond area, pose challenges for prosecutors who seek guidance in the Virginia Code. State law says some of the instances could constitute manufacturing child pornography.